Gospel star and Grand Rapids pastor Marvin Sapp shared his feelings behind “I Win,” his latest album and a tribute to his late wife, in a studio interview that aired tonight on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
NPR called Sapp “the biggest name in gospel today” as they discussed the changes in his life since his wife, MaLinda, died of cancer in 2010.
The past two years have been “very challenging,” Sapp told NPR’s Guy Raz. “Trying to learn new normals and trying to figure out who I am as 45-year-old man versus when I married her at 23.”
Sapp attributed the popularity of his biggest hit, “Never Would Have Made It,” to its universal message. “All of us have gone through ‘never would have made it’ moments,” Sapp said.
Sapp described some the pivotal moments of his life in Grand Rapids. Sapp met MaLinda in third grade. They began dating at age 23 and married at 25.
“The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live,” Sapp said.
It’s a lesson he says he learned from his youngest daughter the morning after her mother’s death when, at 11 years old, she got up at 6:30 a.m. and went to school because MaLinda often told the kids to “keep on moving.” It’s a sentiment Sapp has cherished and even wrote a song about on his latest album.
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